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FAMILY LITHOSIID^E. 



Cisthene menea Druce. 



Larva. Head rounded, flat before with a slight notch at vertex; 

 pale reddish brown, the sutures paler. Body cylindrical, tapering a 

 little before and somewhat flattened; pale yellow, marked with crim- 

 son. Irregular crimson transverse bands, four or five to a segment, 

 partly confluent and with indented edges, the broadest one in the in- 

 cisure, all becoming irregularly confluent subventrally; venter pale 

 with a crimson tint spreading from the subventral area. Warts 

 small, with very long spreading and curving pale yellow hairs; one 

 wart above the stigmatal wart on joints 3 and 4; wart i of the ab- 

 domen two-haired; wart iv single-haired, placed directly below the 

 spiracle. Feet normal, pale. 



FAMILY 



Ammalo helops Cramer. 



Larva. Head rounded, about as wide as high, considerably larger 

 than joint 2; shining mahogany red, the sutures paler. Body dull 

 reddish without markings, densely clothed with thick tufts of rather 

 short stiff black hairs. Thoracic feet pale brown; abdominal ones 

 vinous. Two warts above the stigmatal wart on joints 3 and 4; wart 

 iv of the abdomen above and behind the spiracle, a little smaller than 

 the others. 



Euchaetias albicosta Walker. 



Larva. Head rounded, shining black with the sutures pale. Body 

 dull purplish with irregular light markings stigmatally, densely 

 clothed with tufts of hairs. The general hair covering is black, in- 

 cluding long slender black pencils subdorsally from joints 4 and 12; 

 long white pencils from warts ii and iii on joints 5 and 11 ; a series of 

 alternating white and orange short tufts subdorsally on joints 6 to 11. 

 Warts rather small, normal. Hairs finely, shortly feathered, espe- 

 cially the plumed subdorsal white and orange ones. 



The larva is much like that of /ii/r/urtias egle Drury. 

 FAMILY HYPSID^ (.PKKICOPID^ . 



Pericopis leucophaea Walker. 



Larva. Head rounded, flat before, as large as joint 2. shining 

 black with a pale line down the median suture to clypeus. Body 

 cylindrical, joint 12 slightly enlarged; warts large, with numerous 

 hairs, but these fine and thin, not obscuring the body. Pale straw 

 color, with dorsal, lateral, pedal, and ventral lines of purple brown, 

 dotted and powdery; traces of subdorsal and stigmatal similar lines, 



